"his childhood in India. Singh observes, too, that Kipling wove ""magic and fantasy"" into the stories for his daughter Josephine, and that even critics reading Kipling for signs of imperialism could not help admiring the power of his storytelling. ""The Jungle Book"" came to be used as a motivational book by the Cub Scouts, a junior element of the Scouting movement. This use of the book's universe was approved by Kipling at the request of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement, who had originally asked for the author's permission for the use of the ""Memory Game"" from ""Kim"" in"
"The Jungle The Jungle is a novel written in 1904 by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States. However, most readers were more concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, greatly contributing to a public outcry which led to reforms including the"
"stories), non-fiction, and poetry. Several of his works were collaborations. Works Resources Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include ""The Jungle Book"" (1894), ""Kim"" (1901), and many short stories, including ""The Man Who Would Be King"" (1888). His poems include ""Mandalay"" (1890), ""Gunga Din"" (1890), ""The Gods of the Copybook Headings"" (1919), ""The White Man's Burden"" (1899), and ""If—"" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in"
"meat packers. The government (and taxpayers) would bear the costs of inspection, estimated at $30,000,000 annually. He complained about the public's misunderstanding of the point of his book in ""Cosmopolitan Magazine"" in October 1906 by saying, ""I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."" A film version of the novel was made in 1914, but it has since been lost. (plain text and HTML) The Jungle The Jungle is a novel written in 1904 by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and"
"Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include ""The Jungle Book"" (1894), ""Kim"" (1901), and many short stories, including ""The Man Who Would Be King"" (1888). His poems include ""Mandalay"" (1890), ""Gunga Din"" (1890), ""The Gods of the Copybook Headings"" (1919), ""The White Man's Burden"" (1899), and ""If—"" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of"
"the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (which was still known as Zaire at that time). It was performed with band as part of a concert preceding the bout that was said to be the finest collection of African American entertainers ever assembled at that time. The poem was published as part of a 1998 book called ""I Am Somebody!"" (), which included biographies of notable figures, for kids aged 9–12. About a month after Dr. Seuss died in 1991, ""Saturday Night Live"" paid tribute to the book ""Green Eggs"
"his scheme to develop the morale and fitness of working-class youths in cities. Akela, the head wolf in ""The Jungle Book"", has become a senior figure in the movement; the name is traditionally adopted by the leader of each Cub Scout pack. ""The Jungle Book"" has been adapted many times in a wide variety of media. In literature, Robert Heinlein wrote the Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel, ""Stranger in a Strange Land"" (1961), when his wife, Virginia, suggested a new version of ""The Jungle Book"", but with a child raised by Martians instead of wolves. Neil Gaiman's ""The Graveyard Book"""
"The Jungle Book (soundtrack) The Jungle Book, the soundtrack to the eponymous Disney film, has been released in three different versions since the film's release in 1967. The film score was composed by George Bruns, with songs written by Terry Gilkyson and the Sherman Brothers. The instrumental music was written by George Bruns and orchestrated by Walter Sheets. Two of the cues were reused from previous Disney films, with the scene where Mowgli wakes up after escaping King Louie using one of Bruns' themes for ""Sleeping Beauty"", and Bagheera giving a eulogy to Baloo when he mistakenly thinks the bear"
"Letting in the Jungle ""Letting In the Jungle"" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling which continues Mowgli's adventures from ""Mowgli's Brothers"" and ""Tiger! Tiger!"". The story was written at Kipling's parents' home in Tisbury, Wiltshire, and is therefore the only Mowgli story not written in Vermont. It was published in the Pall Mall Gazette and the Pall Mall Budget for December 13, 1894, and in McClure's Magazine for January 1895, before being collected as the third story in ""The Second Jungle Book"" (1895). In the previous story Mowgli fulfilled his vow to kill the tiger Shere Khan and to"
"Mowgli Mowgli is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" stories. He is a naked feral child from the Pench area in Seoni, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story ""In the Rukh"" (collected in ""Many Inventions"", 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his collections ""The Jungle Book"" and ""The Second Jungle Book"" (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters. In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean ""frog"", describing his lack of fur. Kipling made up the name, and it ""does not"
"Jungle Girl (novel) Jungle Girl is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, set in a forgotten kingdom in the jungles of Cambodia. Burroughs started the novel in 1929 (2 October) under the working title ""The Dancing Girl of the Leper King"". It was first run serially in five installments from May to September 1931 by ""Blue Book Magazine"" under the title ""The Land of Hidden Men"". The book version was first published by ERB, Inc. on 15 April 1932. Ace Paperback has republished the book in paperback several times, again under the title ""The Land of Hidden Men""."
"The Jungle Book 2 The Jungle Book 2 is a 2003 animated film produced by the Australian office at DisneyToon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. The theatrical version of the film was released in France on February 5, 2003, and released in the United States on February 14, 2003. The film is a sequel to Walt Disney's 1967 film ""The Jungle Book"", and stars Haley Joel Osment as the voice of Mowgli and John Goodman as the voice of Baloo. The film was originally produced as a direct-to-video film, but was released theatrically first,"
"in ""The All-Story"" in October 1912. ""The All-Story"" published it in its entirety in installments, and it was published in 1914 as a novel. Though ""The Jungle Book"" is sometimes cited as an influence on Burroughs’ ""Tarzan of the Apes"", he claimed that his only inspiration was the Roman myth of Romulus and Remus. Rudyard Kipling commented that Burroughs ""had 'jazzed' the motif of the Jungle Books and, I imagine, thoroughly enjoyed himself."" Recent literary criticism often focuses on the identity of the eponymous protagonist of ""Tarzan of the Apes."" Literary scholars, such as Jeff Berglund, Mikko Tuhkanen, J. Michelle"
"Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel ""The Jungle"", which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act"
"Kldiashvili directed a live action feature film entitled ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" four years later. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" is a short story in the 1894 anthology ""The Jungle Book"" by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose. It has often been anthologized and has been published several times as a short book. The story follows the experiences of a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (after his chattering vocalizations) after he becomes the pet of a British family residing in India as protection against cobras. He becomes friendly with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden, and is warned of the cobras Nag"
"Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong'o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, and Christopher Walken. Favreau, Marks, and producer Brigham Taylor developed the film's story as a balance between Disney's animated adaptation and Kipling's original works, borrowing elements from both into the film. Principal photography commenced in 2014, with filming taking place entirely in Los Angeles. The film required extensive use of computer-generated imagery to portray the animals and settings. ""The Jungle Book"" was released in North America in Disney Digital 3-D, RealD 3D, IMAX 3D, D-Box, and premium large formats, on April 15, 2016. It became a critical and commercial"
"He never had written for children, but he would try. The result was ""The Jungle Book"". Dodge lived in a large apartment-building overlooking Central Park in New York City. In 1888, she purchased a cottage, which she named ""Yarrow"", in the summer colony at Onteora Park, Onteora Park, Tannersville, New York, upon the slope of Onteora Mountain, in the Catskill Mountains. In the beginning, it was a simple little square frame-house, and Dodge took great delight in adding, year by year, a room or a veranda, a bay-window or an extension, until she created, at last, a many-gabled home, to"
"Walt Disney never Kippled either. Hardly a line is left of the stories about Mowgli, the Indian ""man-cub"" who was raised by animals. Like Disney's other adaptations of children's classics, The Jungle Book is based on the Kipling original in the same way that a fox hunt is based on foxes. Nonetheless, the result is thoroughly delightful.” The above review is from an April 15, 2016 Time Magazine Review of The Jungle Book 1967 (http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,841219,00.html). The portrayal of Bagheera as well as Ben Kingsley's voice acting were praised in the 2016 film. Rotten Tomatoes top critic James Berardinelli stated: ""Ben"
"Baloo Baloo ( ""Bhālū"", ""bear"") is a main fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" from 1894 and ""The Second Jungle Book"" from 1895. Baloo, a sloth bear, is the strict teacher of the cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack. His most challenging pupil is the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. Baloo and Bagheera, a panther, save Mowgli from Shere Khan the tiger and endeavor to teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle in many of ""The Jungle Book"" stories. He is described in Kipling's work as ""the sleepy brown bear"". Robert Armitage Sterndale, from whom Kipling derived most of his"
"from casting a black person to voice an ape, they instead chose Prima, a white singer. Christopher Walken voiced King Louie in the 2016 live-action/CGI ""The Jungle Book"" film. Although the Disney adaptation is based on the Kipling stories, the character King Louie does not appear in Rudyard Kipling's original book, as orangutans, the species as which he is portrayed, are not native to India in real life. It is also stated by Kipling in the original that the Bandar-log, or monkeys over which King Louie rules, have no effective leadership, let alone a king. In the book, Mowgli is"
"the same title in ""The Jungle Book"" (1894) by Rudyard Kipling. In this tale set in India, the young mongoose saves his family from a krait and from Nag and Nagaina, two cobras. The story was later made into several films and a song by Donovan, among other references. A mongoose also features in Bram Stoker's novel ""The Lair of the White Worm"". The main character, Adam Salton, purchases one to independently hunt snakes. Another mongoose features in the denouement of the Sherlock Holmes story ""The Adventure of the Crooked Man"", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Indian Tamil Devotional"
"The Beast in the Jungle The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, ""The Better Sort"". Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death. The parable of John Marcher and his peculiar destiny has spoken to many readers who have speculated on the worth and meaning of human life. John Marcher, the protagonist, is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier, who remembers his odd secret: Marcher is seized with the belief that"
"The Village in the Jungle The Village in the Jungle is a novel by Leonard Woolf, published in 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the early years of the 20th century. Ground-breaking in Western fiction for being written from the native rather than the colonial point of view, it is also an influential work of Sri Lankan literature. It was republished by Eland in 2008. Leonard Woolf worked for the British Ceylon Civil Service in Sri Lanka for seven years after graduating from Cambridge University in 1904. In Cambridge"
"Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman, published in 1959. Kurtzman aimed it at an adult audience, in contrast to his earlier work for adolescents in periodicals such as ""Mad"". The social satire in the book's four stories targets ""Peter Gunn""-style private-detective shows, Westerns such as ""Gunsmoke"", capitalist avarice in the publishing industry, Freudian pop psychology, and lynch-hungry yokels in the South. Kurtzman's character Goodman Beaver makes his first appearance in one of the stories. Kurtzman created the satirical ""Mad"" in 1952, but left its publisher EC Comics in 1956"
"freelance pen-and-ink artist for such periodicals as ""Century"" or ""Harper’s"" with animal studies, still lifes and landscapes. Having developed skills in drawing wild animals, particularly wild cats, in 1894, he received commissions to illustrate books, including ""The Jungle Books"", by Kipling. In 1902 he was made an associate member of the National Academy of Design. Drake moved to California in 1920. William Henry Drake (painter) William Henry Drake (June 4, 1856 – 1926) born in New York, was an American painter and illustrator known for his illustrations of ""The Jungle Book"" by Rudyard Kipling. Drake studied at the Académie Julian"
"The Mystery of the Black Jungle The Mystery of the Black Jungle () is an exotic adventure novel written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1895. It features two of his most famous characters, the hunter Tremal-Naik and his loyal servant Kammamuri. The adventure continues in The Pirates of Malaysia. Few can live in the Black Jungle of the Sundarbans, the islands formed by the delta of the Ganges river in India, a desolate, silent place teeming with wild dangerous beasts. Yet it is among its dark forests and bamboo groves here that the renowned snake and tiger hunter"
"Château Woolsack The Château Woolsack or Château de Woolsack or The Woolsack is a former hunting lodge located in the commune of Mimizan in the department of Landes in the Aquitaine region of south-western France. Built in 1911 on the shores of Lake Aureilhan by Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, it is a replica in the Tudor style of the home of Rudyard Kipling - the author of ""The Jungle Book"". It is on a site which has been classified since 18 July 1978. The 2nd Duke of Westminster, born in 1879, came from one of the richest and"
"book is ""The Jungle Tide"" which was published in 1930 and was one of four textbooks prescribed for English literature in the Sri Lankan Senior School Certificate (English) Examination in the 1940s. In 1939 Still moved to Rhodesia to live near his son. He remained in Africa for the rest of his life as a practising Buddhist. He suffered from diabetes and died in Port Alfred, South Africa on 9 September 1941. John Still (author) John Still (1880–1941) was a British archaeologist and author, known for his discoveries at Sigiriya and his book ""The Jungle Tide"". Still was born in"
"it had been a success?"" Thompson speculated on what Kurtzman may have been capable of if he had not had to resort to teaching, illustration, and ""Little Annie Fanny"". Thompson called the book ""one of the most stunning successes, and one of the field's most heartbreaking failures"". Kurtzman's self-portrait from the back cover of the book is used in connection with the Harvey Awards, named in Kurtzman's honor. Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman, published in 1959. Kurtzman aimed it at an adult audience, in contrast to his earlier"
"cruelty of his image, what had been appointed and done. He saw the Jungle of his life and saw the lurking Beast; then, while he looked, perceived it, as by a stir of the air, rise, huge and hideous, for the leap that was to settle him. His eyes darkened—it was close; and, instinctively turning, in his hallucination, to avoid it, he flung himself, on his face, on the tomb. The Beast in the Jungle The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, ""The Better Sort"". Almost universally considered"
"The Jungle Book. One day, Leslie goes to a convenience store, where it becomes apparent her parents are looking for her because her picture is on milk cartons. However, Leslie doesn't see the cartons, thus preserving her notion that her parents don't want her. While Alex is paying for ice cream, the store owner's wife recognizes her as missing and calls the police. When the police show up at Alex and Frank's house, they hastily escape with the children. Almost nine years later, Leslie (Gillian Jacobs) and Donnie (Evan Ross) are living together on the streets of San Diego, prostituting"
"This is the Jungle This is the Jungle is the fifth book of jungle tales and man-eaters written by Kenneth Anderson, first published in 1964 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. The book is dedicated to the memory of Kenneth Anderson's late mother, Lucie Anne Anderson. Anderson also acknowledges thanks to his publishers, ""I very gladly take this opportunity of expressing my grateful thanks to Malcolm Barnes of George Allen & Unwin Ltd., for all the time and trouble he has given to patiently reading through and editing all my stories, both in this volume and its four predecessors"". Introduction"
"The Jungle Book (video game) The Jungle Book is a series of platform video games based on the 1967 Disney animated film ""The Jungle Book"", primarily released in 1994. The game was released by Virgin Interactive Entertainment in 1993 for the Sega Master System. Conversions for the Game Boy, NES, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear, Super NES, and PC followed in 1994, and a remake for the Game Boy Advance was released in 2003 to celebrate the film's sequel, ""The Jungle Book 2"". While gameplay is the same on all versions, technological differences between the systems forced changes –"